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Based on a recently MoU signed between UNCTAD and the Institute of Intellectual Property of Ecuador, the latter invited UNCTAD to the launching of an export promotion campaign for key local products produced by local communities with high traditional knowledge content.

The implications of the ratification of the Nagoya Protocol for trade, development and intellectual property was discussed with Ecuadorian parliamentarians, government officials and other users and providers of biological resources and related traditional knowledge.

The Secretary General of UNCTAD, Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, awarded 18 participants of the TrainForTrade/UNCTAD Port Training Programme with the UNCTAD Certificate in Modern Port Management in Djibouti on 17 February 2015. The participants from Djibouti's port community had previously successfully defended their final dissertations focusing on challenges within their area of work. The juries on the dissertation panels comprised representatives from partner ports of the French-speaking network of the Programme.